we are doing okay out there. no major incidents to report on the highways at this time in terms of accidents. let's look at 695 at wilkins. it's a closeup shot but traffic is moving no problems. outer loop to the left of the screen where most of the traffic is. that's usual for this time of day. accident free in the city. and in columbia, we have a detour 108 eastbound closed -- closed due to a tree down. 95 southbound before o'donnell street there's debris in the road. not an accident so they are working to get that out. megan. >> all right, thanks so much. there were loud cracks of thunder and nasty wind, heavy rains, and this morning we are looking more clear. but a lot of you have cleanup to do. abc2 news linda so is live with the latest. linda. >> reporter: yeah, they will be spending a lot of time this morning cleaning up the mess here. we are on niagara court. this is a neighborhood in halethorpe hit really hard during the storm last night. you can see the branches blocking the street. you can see where the trees

were snapped in half. the force of the storms really did a lot of damage in this neighborhood. on our drive through, we counted about 10 trees that were down just one after another. luckily, we are not hearing of any injuries in this area. but let me show you pretty serious stuff here. it's dark because when the trees came down, they brought down the power lines a lot of these homes without power this morning. but no injuries reported. bge crews were here and they left the scene and will be back in a little bit. but they say it could be a little while before the power comes back on just because of the damage it did in the area. you can see that other tree right there just snapped. you can imagine what happened here. those storms were pretty hard when they hit. bge crews tell us a few streets down there was actually a roof that was torn off one of the homes. the force of it it was so strong that it literally lifted a car up and landed under a car. that's the damage that we are hearing in the area. but again, no injuries. also in the dundalk area, there was a lot of damage that seemed

to be contes straighted in that -- concentrated in that area. a roof was torn off an apartment building there. we hear from a woman who told us when the roof came off, the rain was pouring down. literally it soaked everything in the apartment. all of her belongings, carpet and furniture and it's all gone. let's list tope what she had to say. >> i was -- listen to what she had to say. >> i was scared. one roof came off and another. i was worried that everything was going to fly in here. >> reporter: back out live here on niagara court in halethorpe, you can see the trees down. when they came down they brought the power lines with it. power will be out in the neighborhood for most of the day today. the soarous damage it did. bge crews hope to have it on sometime this afternoon. and they think later this evening just because of what it did here. but, again, when you are out and about today, be mindful that when the storms did come through, they brought down a lot of trees a. lot of power lines. you could come across those

today. also, some traffic signals could be out. so be mindful of that. we are live in halethorpe, linda so, abc2 news. >> you can track storms in your neighborhood. all you have to do is log onto abc2news.com maryland's most powerful doppler radar and you can sign up to get weather alerts to your phone. so it appears casey anthony will stay in jail a little longer than what was first announced. instead of getting out next wednesday july 13th, it's now recalculated to a week from this sunday july 17th. the florida mom was acquitted tuesday of first-degree murder of her 2-year-old daughter and sentenced to four years for lying to investigators, but she is being given credit for time served. new developments in the investigation of the north carolina teen phylicia barnes. she vanished in baltimore after christmas last year. her body was found four months later in the susquehanna river. sherrie johnson is live with the latest information on the

ongoing investigation. sherrie. >> reporter: well, charley, abc2 news obtained search warrants for online accounts in the case of phylicia barnes. the warrants may provide a clue as to what happened to phylicia. in each warrant, authorities are investigating sexual exploitation of children and distribution and possession of child pornography. we don't know how it could be connected to her death. in one warrant, police are granted access to several facebook accounts which are all identified with numbers. the other warrants allow police to get information into several e-mail accounts two of can i containt name phylicia. she disappeared after christmas and her body was found near the conwingo dam. of course we will continue to follow the case and keep you updated with the latest information. reporting live from downtown baltimore, sherrie johnson, abc2 news. four minutes after five. the mother of a 6-year-old boy who drowned at sandy point

state park wants to prevent the tragedy from happening to somebody else again. saquan kennedy died after spending more than 10 minutes under water. -- underrer the water. -- underrer the water. witnesses -- under the water. witnesses say he went to retrieve a ball and went under. >> i don't understand this. this is a beach. where was the lifeguards? i mean if the beach was not open, why they let people on. >> they provide lifeguards from 11 in the morning until 6 at night and his mother says they need to add warning signs or make swimming off limits inform lifeguard arrive. 5:05 right now. officials are asking the question, what could have possibly happened? >> a small plane crashes into a hospital. so what investigators are saying about this this morning. and we may have wild weather here, but this is nothing compared to what's going on out west. we will show you when "good morning maryland" returns. we are first and only at 4:30 every morning.

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video. people in den, very colorado is -- denver, colorado, a fierce thunderstorm rolled through the area. strong wind uprooted trees and knocked down power lines and heavy rains flooded the street. one man's car stalled and he pushed the vehicle through high water. you see him right there. >> unbelievable. if you are a fan of golf, the u.s. open is going on outside of denver. they were suspended by the storms. but if you were caught on a golf course late yesterday afternoon you were in just as much trouble. >> not the prettiest weather. let's get to lynette charles. hopefully today and this weekend will be better. >> the weekend is going to be better. but today, going into the afternoon, we will see chances for showers and thunderstorms in the forecast again. some of those could be on the severe side i hate to break the news. but we will be here to keep you updated if anything goes severe. we have a flash flood watch in effect and goes through late tonight and it's for all the areas here shaded in the green. and you know what? if we get trapped under some of

the showers and thunderstorms, you know the rainfall rate is up to about 2 inches in less than an hour. so that's why we do have that flash flood watch in effect. it's a potential for flooding that's possible. so we have mala's most powerful radar looking dry as of now. but i don't want you to think this is how it's going to be throughout the day because we have change coming across the area. so be forewarned. also, you heard me talk about some of those going severe. if it does, the storm prediction center has us in a slight risk and the biggest threat will be a wet microburst that's basically a column of air that goes through the ground and what it does is that it has some really strong wind. and those are the straight line wind. we are not dealing with a tornado. that's a straight line wind that causes a lot of damage. let's send it over to tonya with traffic. >> reporter: good morning. the debris we had in the road 95 southbound before o'donnell is now clear. so they got that out of way pretty quickly. let's look at the beltway which is moving fine. we don't have any incidents to

report here. that's the outer loop at liberty road. all the lanes are open. no incidents reported. columbia in columbia, 108 eastbound is closed due to a tree down at elliot's oak road. 108 eastbound closed due to a tree down at elliot's oak road. >> thanks a lot. i am going to need your help. >> okay. >> making a trip down the aisle could be an emotional experience. you admitted you were nervous. did you need tissue? >> well i did tear up, yes. >> guess what. these women had no problems wiping the tears because the dresses are made out of toilet paper. it was part of the 7th annual toilet paper wedding dress contest. a michigan woman got the first prize of $1,000. she used four rolls. >> i would hope it's two-ply that's impressive. they are beautiful dresses. >> they are.

but you have to account for the wedding. >> she used hot glue as well but if you are creating something like that, you know what you are doing. next stop project runway for her. in about six hours, it will be history. >> for 30 years nasa is closing the book of the 30-year space program. how preparations are underway and will atlantis make the scheduled last flight. still on canada, the royal company will california dreaming heading to cali to wrap up the north american tour. you watching "good morning maryland "a "first and only at #:30. -- 4:30.

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all right. thanks for joining us a live picture to show you from cape canaveral florida. it's the end of an era. nasa is closing its 30-year space shuttle program. >> at lappetis is scheduled to lift-- atlantis is scheduled to lift off in six hours but the odds of it taking place is slim to none. lightning and rainstorms are looming over the area. but there's some optimism. >> there's some opportunity so when we have opportunity generally we will take it. and that's what we want to do

because we want to-- it's a really tough day if you make a decision not to go and it turns out to be good weather. >> during the 12-day mission four astronauts will carry 8,000 pounds of food, clothes and critical parts to the international space station.>> the weather is an issue there and certainly here. i was curious if any of the rain we got yesterday mate up for the deficit we have been experience -- made up for the deficit wehave been experiencing. >> lynette? >> yes it did but not everybody got the rain just some scattered showers and thunderstorms across the area. today, i think it's going to be more widespread. so today is going to be the day that we really cover that deficit. actually, i think maybe we can go over that deficit. so we will see. we could have a surplus when it's all said and done. yesterday, the highs were 95 degrees. all that sunshine and we felt it. do it again. we are going to be dealing with temperatures today not as badch the reason is that we have the cloud cover and the rain that's going to be moving in as well. the temperatures not so bad

right now. we are warm and used to it and dealing with some very muggyweather once again. dew points in the 70s into dc, culpepper. 73 in easton and 68 in baltimore right now. 67 to york and this is how it is going to stay through the remainder of today. the satellite and radar picking up on cloud cover across the area. we had showers and thunderstorms yesterday early this morning and those are pretty much out but looking towards the west, we see another line of showers and thunderstorms and we are going to be getting that as we go into the afternoon. what's going on? we have a stationary front and this front is going to be the focal point of the showers and thunderstorms as we go throughout the day. that's been the scenario all week. we still have the warm feed of moisture across the area. lots of moisture to ring out of the atmosphere. and that's why we will have a downpour, and we could see the rainfall rates rather on the high side. future radar picking up on what i am talking about. you see around one, four and

those yellow and oranges and definitely thunderstorms in there. and also heavy rain across the area. than we go into saturday -- saturday and then you see a big smile because we are looking pretty good going into saturday and sunday. early saturday morning we could have residual rain. but then we will gradually clear out. nicely going throughout the day and end up with plenty of sunshine that will linger as we go into sunday. once again for today, the temperature coming in right around 86 degrees. the showers and thunderstorms a flash flood watch through the evening and then by tonight, that temperature right around 69 degrees. still more of the say, very soupy, very humid outside and then tomorrow, that temperature coming in right around 88 degrees. and again they are at a.m. showers i am talking about as possible. so it's not a guaranteed thing. and then that gradual clearing is guaranteed as we go throughout the day. here's the 7-day forecast. i know you like it. saturday, nice and dry, 88 degrees. 90 going into sunday and the key there is the fact that we will be less humid going

throughout the weekend. as we go into next week, though, the showers and thunderstorms return and it's going to be a little bit hotter outside. all right. let's go over to tonya with your traffic. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. marc train 401 on the penn line is five minutes late. let's look out there to see how traffic is moving along. no problems on the beltway at liberty road. that's the outer loop with most of the volume that's usual this time morning. in columbia, 108 is now closed in both directions at elliot's oak road due to a tree down. megan. >> thanks so much. 19 minutes after 5 right now. good news for fans of abc soap operas all my children and one life to live. charley you will like this. two shows are canceled, however you can probably follow the stories because abc has licensed the shows to a company that will continue them on the internet. no word or not whether the same cast will stay on but all my children will des appear from

abc's schedule on september 23rd. one life to live will end their run on the network in january. elizabeth smart is taking a job with abc and she will be working as a commentator focusing on missing persons and child abduction cases. the utah woman was kidnapped from the salt lake city home and held captive when she was 14. she shea was found nine months later 18 -- she was found 9 month away 18 miles away. jaycee dugard is peeking -- speak about her time in captivity. she was held for 18 years in a secret backyard by a paroleed sex offender. she had two children. you can catch her exclusive interview right here at 9:00 on abc sunday night. all right. today, the royal couple are headed to los angeles. the first overseas tour since tying the knot in april. now the duke and dupes of cambridge you might know -- duchess of cambridge were wrapping up the canadian part

of the north american visit. yesterday they made a detour to the official itinerary to visit slave lake damaged by a wild fire there in may. so is the federal government working for you? a question a lot you ask. >> a senator is coming to you for your answers. >> and keeping your home flew the -- through the recession. what the height house is considering to help you -- house -- what the white house is considering to help you do just that. you are watching "good morning maryland" first and only at 4:30.

now "good morning maryland." all right. no need to search for a place to get a bite to eat tonight. food trucks offering quick, easy meals will be parked from 5 to 10 at inner harbor on central avenue. it's called the gathering. baltimore's first food truck rally pourings of the sales tonight are going -- portions of the sales tonight again fit there goes my hero. >> shirley's is going to be there. the charles pub will be

rebuilt. you may reb the charles vil a.m. pub caught on fire -- villa pub caught on fire and was destroyed. today barbara mikulski will head to the eastern shore to visit to easton as part of a jobs tour she is conducting. she is traveling around maryland talking to you about which parts of the federal government work and which parts don't. today, she expected to meet with representatives of the seafood and poultry industry. and speak of the economy, the -- speaking of the economy, the obama administration is trying to make it easier for those out of work to keep their homes. starting next month, unemployed homeowners can miss as many as 12 payments before the foreclosure process begins but it only starts to federal housing administration backed loans. off to a break. when we return, tragedy in texas a father dies at a texas rangers baseball game. >> what happened and does this have the league reconsidering safety at u.s. ball parks?

it was terrible. >> it was intense. very intense. it was the flames why unbelievable. >> an incredible store every survival. when you sea the -- see the video and heart story, you will be shocked by the outcome. you are watching "good morning maryland" now let's go to new york for this morning's tech bites. >> reporter: in today's tech bites a. flaw in i security. apple says it is work on fixing the security hole of the iphones and ipad and theipod touch. weakness was found by a german government agency. ael's app store hit 15 billion applications that have been down load over the past there years -- three years there. are 425,000 apps available for down load. and spending of apps neilsen says games are the most popular among smart phone users. 2/3 of those surveyed down loaded at least one in a 30- -day period. weather apps are a close second

and social networking apps round out top three. a company called photo joe joeattaches professional camera lens to your iphone and it sells for $200 depending on the iphone and is compatible with nikon and cannon lenses. those are your tech bites, i am daniel si. eberg. clear -- sieberg.

now "good morning maryland." terror in one michigan community that started out as a shooting and tuned into a deadly hostage situation. he was a beloved call the and humanitarian who loved the site. this morning the loss of john mackey dead at 69.>> reporter: what happened in halethorpe. i am linda so, trees snapped in half and the cleanup has only

begun. >> all right. that's the situation a lot of people are in this morning. some people have no power. and others have trees and debris in the yards. >> let's get to lynette charles and see if the worst of it is over or if there's going to be another wave rolling through today. >> yeah. you are right i think there is going to be another wave that rolls through as we go through the afternoon time frame. and again, some strong thunderstorms to maybe severe thunderstormsp we will keep our eye on that. i am calling it freaky friday because we have a lot going on. we will start out with the flash flood watch and we are going to be not as hot for today. that's good news. but we have the humidity out there. so it feels yucky outside. don't you love that word so technical? the showers and thunderstorms are likely for this afternoon. not possible and then we start to dry things out as we go into the weekend. so we do have a watch in effect and this is a flash flood watch in effect through tonight and this is for all the areas here soaded in the green.